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pedibus piceis. Long. corp. lin. 74. Inhabits Sierra Leone. 
This species seems to unite Compsiura, H. with Diplognatha, 
G. and P. 
Stripsipher ambiguus, H. Niger, aureo-pubescens ; clypeo antice 
porrecto, thorace punctatissimo, lateribus angulatis, scutello mag- 
no punctulato ; elytris lineis 4 elevatis alidque abbreviatd mar- 
ginali. Long. corp. lin. 64. Inhabits Sierra Leone. Lieut. 
Sayers. 
Cetonia Withillii, B. Cuprea, thorace maculis duabus minutis dis- 
coidalibus. albis ; elytris flavo-maculatis, corpore infra roseo- 
cupreo maculato ; pedibus cupreis. Long. corp. lin. 123. In- 
habits the East Indies. Col. Withill. 
Cetonia Saundersii, B. Supra aurato-viridis nitida punctatissima 
albo-guttata, antennis tarsisque nigricantibus, elytris apice inermi- 
bus, abdomine utrinque albo-maculato. Long. corp. lin. 8. In- 
habits the East Indies. W. W. Saunders, Esq. Allied to Cet. 
albo-guttata, Vig. 
Amphistoros affinis, B. Nigra, thorace lineis tribus albis, elytris 
flavis ad apicem albo-punetatis, ano utrinque maculd rotundatd, 
corpore infra nigro-piceo, medio abdominis concolori, lateribus 
albo-maculatis. Long. corp. lin. 7. Inhabits Sierra Leone. 
Allied to Cet. elata, Fab. and Amph. varians, G. and P. 
Srernoprsma, H. Forma Gymnetidis. Clypeus fissus. Thorax 
trigonus, postice disco protensv. LElytra gradatim e basi ad 
apicem attenuata, medio acuminata. Sternum valde prominens, 
antice porrectum. Femora antica bispinosa, 4 postica inermia. 
Stethodesma Strachani, H. Niégricans rubro marginata, elytris 
atris postice albo-punctatis apiceque rubro, corpore infra rubro- 
piceo, segmentis abdominis serie duplici macularum. Long. corp. 
lin. 123. Inhabits Sierra Leone. P.S. Strachan, Esq. 
Observations on the Scolia fulva. By W. E. Shuckard, Esq. 
A female of this species was figured from the collection of the 
Rev. F. W. Hope, in Griffith’s ‘ Animal Kingdom,’ in which a very 
short description was given of it with the erroneous locality of South 
America, the species being from New Holland. Mr. Hope having 
obtained the other sex, Mr. Shuckard gives a detailed description of 
the species, which belongs to the first section of the genus with three 
submarginal cells and two recurrent nerves. “It is very rare in 
coloured Scolie that the sexes are alike, but here we haye a complete 
resemblance, except in structural details peculiar to the sexes.” 
Observations on some Mummied Beetles. By the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
The insects noticed in this communication were taken from the 
inside of a mummied Ibis by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, and belonged 
to two genera, Pimelia pilosa, F., (Trachyderma pilosa, Latr.) and Akis 
refleca, Fab., both of which are met with in great abundance in 
Egypt at the present day. Several entire specimens of the former 
and the limbs of others, with sundry limbs of other insects, were 
obtained. A specimen of Trachyderma pilosa is also attached to the 
